Imagine If There Were No Scientists

‘The good thing about science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.’

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think Neil deGrasse Tyson was probably using this statement to make a distinction between fact and opinion and between evidence and faith. It’s true that when scientists say something, they can generally back it up with proof, but that proof is not enough for some.

Last year, for instance, US Secretary of State John Kerry said the climate change debate was over. ‘The science is unequivocal,’ he insisted. ‘We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.’

There is no doubt many climate change deniers are upset about NASA’s latest scientific predictions that climate change will affect all life on Earth sooner or later. Here’s a way to calm them and save money. Let’s stop teaching science in our schools!

After all, why prepare our children to be scientists if we’re going to ignore them when they grow up and warn us about scary things? Why encourage them to get advanced degrees in difficult subjects if we’re not going to take their advice? We can avoid the whole problem by not teaching science in the first place. Think of the billions of dollars we could save by not paying for specially equipped classrooms, teacher salaries and science texts.

Of course, we’ll need some scientists for medicine, agriculture and many other industries, but other countries could provide them for us. If they start warning us about things we don’t believe in, we’ll simply replace them with others who don’t speak up. It works in countries with repressive regimes, so it could work in America as well!

Imagine that for a second! No scientists, no climate change, no problems! What a wonderful world!